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5.05/4/2026

Encourages students to think independently.

4.06/27/2025

Encourages students to explore new ideas.

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Michael G. Chang is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, where he joined as Assistant Professor in 2001 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007. A specialist in the history of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), his research examines the political, social, cultural, and economic histories of late imperial and early modern China (1500-1800), with emphases on ethnicity, state-formation, court studies, and the political and material cultures through which High Qing rule (1680-1820) was constituted, particularly practices of material exchange and network formation at the Qing court. He holds an A.B. in sociology and East Asian Studies from Princeton University (1992) and a Ph.D. in Chinese history from the University of California, San Diego (2001).

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